Police Raid Home Of Brighton Siege Gunman

Melbourne man shared home with mother

2017-06-06T01:35:24Z

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Sweeping police raids have taken place on the home that the Brighton siege gunman shared with his mother.

On Tuesday morning, officers swarmed the Roxburgh Park home of 29-year old Yacqub Khayre, after he gunned down a hotel clerk at the Buckingham Serviced Apartments in Brighton, took a prostitute hostage and died in a police shootout on Monday.

Victoria Police says hundreds of its officers, as well as federal police, are "making sure everything that's behind this" is going towards finding his motivation.

"There is nothing that we've found thus far that would suggest to us that this was anything that was planned or done in concert with others," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters on Tuesday morning.

Malcolm Turnbull questioned how the man with links to terror, was out on parole before killing one man and injuring three police officers while holding a woman hostage.

The prime minister described Monday's attack, which left Khayre dead, as a shocking and cowardly crime.